AI Companies & Funding

report stripe lining up a 7 billion plus deal for openrouter Just nine months ago, OpenRouter carried a $1.3 billion valuation. Bloomberg now reports that Stripe is prepared to hand over more than $7 billion for the company.

Report: Stripe Lining Up a $7 Billion-Plus Deal for OpenRouter

nvidia halves its openai backstop to 120b as anthropics revenue laughs off the bubble chatter The original figure Nvidia was expected to stand behind was $250 billion. The Wall Street Journal reports that the chipmaker is now willing to guarantee a little under $120 billion, a retreat that followed investor complaints about the scale of risk the company was absorbing.

Nvidia halves its OpenAI backstop to $120B as Anthropic’s revenue laughs off the bubble chatter

apple tells court 11 additional former staff may be tied to openai trade secret leak The list of names in Apple's case against OpenAI has expanded by eleven. A newly submitted court filing says an internal probe identified 11 additional former employees who may have taken part in — or simply witnessed — the suspected leaking of trade secrets, alongside the two people Apple had already accused.

Apple tells court 11 additional former staff may be tied to OpenAI trade-secret leak

palantir posts 1 9b quarter then its ceo accuses ai labs of marxism Last quarter Palantir booked $1.1 billion in profit — more in three months than the entire company brought in as revenue during the same stretch a year before, a comparison CEO Alex Karp made a point of writing into his own shareholder letter. Total revenue landed at $1.9 billion, a 93% jump year over year.

Palantir posts $1.9B quarter, then its CEO accuses AI labs of Marxism

googles ai spending guidance just slipped and thats the real story The search giant now says capital expenditure could reach $205 billion. Three months ago, the ceiling it gave was $190 billion. Even the floor of the fresh range — $195 billion — clears the number the company had recently described as its upper limit.

Google’s AI Spending Guidance Just Slipped — And That’s the Real Story

amd pours up to 5b into anthropic but the payoff waits until 2027 AMD is committing as much as $5 billion to Anthropic. In turn, Anthropic will funnel a sizable share of that cash straight back to AMD to buy chips. Yes, it works like a loop — because it is one.

AMD pours up to $5B into Anthropic — but the payoff waits until 2027

sportsvisio SportsVisio, a developer of AI-based tools for sports analysis and content sharing, has raised $3.2 million in new funding.

SportsVisio Raises $3.2M to Expand AI Sports Analytics Globally

Spot Bitcoin ETFs Approved by SEC

Rezolve AI Launches $1B Bitcoin Funding Plan

magnum opus 10M builder grant program mira Mira Network, a pioneer in decentralized AI infrastructure, has unveiled a $10 million developer grant program to foster the development of artificial intelligence applications.

Mira Network Announces $10M Developer Grant Program to Foster AI Application Development

OpenAI Closes $300M Share Sale for ChatGPT

OpenAI Set to Transition to Public Benefit Corporation to Fuel AGI Mission